This is more of rant than anything else. Although the guy and his machines visit Des Moines, Iowa often, I do not see why he deserves exposure other than the fact he uses robots. More people use automated machines, just not as glorified or personalized (effects pedals, samples, etc.)
I'm not sure that I agree that piracy is the reason for all of the music industry woes - I think creativity also has something to do with it, but those are still some huge numbers for pirated CDs.
Are you insane? I have been to Malaysia and every CD cost $1 and instead of audio CDs a lot of times, they throw in a hundred or so MP3s on a disk.
The huge majority of file I have shared are either not copyrighted, or allowed to be distributed freely. How does this make it a felony? Well, I'm hoping that the House isn't numb in the brain and ignore the introduction to the bill.
The White Stripes's last album was recording in a studio in London where nothing was older than 1960. They are very anti-pro tools where as the drummer from No Doubt is a procrastinator and chose to just drum for only so long and loop the rest into the song.
I really don't know where I am taking this, but I think this just people more lazy when producing music.
Is there a way to donate money to the students to help pay their settlement costs? I would love to see other music sharers partially pay for the students' settlements since it would surely anger the RIAA.
Has anyone changed their tongue due to works from google? I haven't modified my vocabulary with words like googling, but I have used l337 sp34k as a joke.
It's odd that the RIAA is trying to get a hold on the network operators for fileswapping music. Half of my mp3 collection is gathered either from my CDs or from the artist's or label's website.
That's very contridictory at my school. The smartest kid is in the varsity tennis team, scored perfectly on his SATs, and literally gets drunk almost every weekend. Any explanation?
I am very glad that they are teaming together to set guidelines. Although I run Linux as my webserver, I am too incompetant to hack Gnome and KDE. Perhaps this will be much easier.
Blood clots should not be the only reason you should get off the computer for brief periods. Although we live in a culture where we are hooked to the internet like our coffee in the morning, we should really take breaks and see how unique the outside world is like. Fortunately, being in a band makes me get up and just play guitar or whatever before spending massive amounts of time on the computer.
Unfortunately the majority of listeners are too lazy to discover music themselves. Instead, radio and television dictates what they listen to. Occasionally they may bump into a college radio station they may enjoy, but driving away from mainstream music requires an open mind, which can't be sacrificed while sitting through 2 hour traffic in the morning and evening.
Anyways, the industry buys the smaller more efficient competitors once they spurn out a fairly popular genre. Moon Ska records was offered 2 million dollars, but they rejected the offer based on ideals and they went bankrupt a few years after.
Although I detest most of the products Microsoft has made for personal and professional computers, it would be nice to see a good port of Counter-Strike and Half-life for the Xbox with multiplayer support.
What is the most significant thing you have learned or appreciated anything since the time you were released from prison because of computer inactivity?
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Deefhoof and Xiu Xiu both rule. I'd just want to reinforce that.
With the ending of No Fun Fest in New York, the biggest of the bands that circuit bent is now releasing an EP on Nirvana's old label, Subpop.
They are called Wolf Eyes. Toy electronics everywhere and homemade gizmos. Even Andrew WK was a member of this band (See Wire magazine).
It is also known that Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails use these.
Also Portishead uses a circuit bent Casio SK-1.
Good joke. One of the larger bands that have many circuit bent electronics is releasing an EP on Nirvana's old label, Subpop.
They are called Wolf Eyes.
Even Trent Reznor used circuit bent instruments.
This is more of rant than anything else. Although the guy and his machines visit Des Moines, Iowa often, I do not see why he deserves exposure other than the fact he uses robots. More people use automated machines, just not as glorified or personalized (effects pedals, samples, etc.)
Kraftwerk deserves more exposure than this guy!
Does this mean I can finally record that rock opera I've always dreamed about?
Maybe, but it doesn't mean it's not going to suck.
I wonder how many lines of code it actually takes to make this game. Any bets?
I think it is much cheaper and easier to paint or stencil a design of your own...at least more original.
I'm not sure that I agree that piracy is the reason for all of the music industry woes - I think creativity also has something to do with it, but those are still some huge numbers for pirated CDs.
Are you insane? I have been to Malaysia and every CD cost $1 and instead of audio CDs a lot of times, they throw in a hundred or so MP3s on a disk.
The huge majority of file I have shared are either not copyrighted, or allowed to be distributed freely. How does this make it a felony? Well, I'm hoping that the House isn't numb in the brain and ignore the introduction to the bill.
The record company is doing the work, but how they are paid is from the cutting of the artists' paycheck.
that's no fun. they'll be less returns on my name now.
The White Stripes's last album was recording in a studio in London where nothing was older than 1960. They are very anti-pro tools where as the drummer from No Doubt is a procrastinator and chose to just drum for only so long and loop the rest into the song.
I really don't know where I am taking this, but I think this just people more lazy when producing music.
Is there a way to donate money to the students to help pay their settlement costs? I would love to see other music sharers partially pay for the students' settlements since it would surely anger the RIAA.
Has anyone changed their tongue due to works from google? I haven't modified my vocabulary with words like googling, but I have used l337 sp34k as a joke.
It's odd that the RIAA is trying to get a hold on the network operators for fileswapping music. Half of my mp3 collection is gathered either from my CDs or from the artist's or label's website.
It's somewhat sad that even gamers are racists.
That's very contridictory at my school. The smartest kid is in the varsity tennis team, scored perfectly on his SATs, and literally gets drunk almost every weekend. Any explanation?
I am very glad that they are teaming together to set guidelines. Although I run Linux as my webserver, I am too incompetant to hack Gnome and KDE. Perhaps this will be much easier.
Blood clots should not be the only reason you should get off the computer for brief periods. Although we live in a culture where we are hooked to the internet like our coffee in the morning, we should really take breaks and see how unique the outside world is like. Fortunately, being in a band makes me get up and just play guitar or whatever before spending massive amounts of time on the computer.
Anyways, the industry buys the smaller more efficient competitors once they spurn out a fairly popular genre. Moon Ska records was offered 2 million dollars, but they rejected the offer based on ideals and they went bankrupt a few years after.
Although I detest most of the products Microsoft has made for personal and professional computers, it would be nice to see a good port of Counter-Strike and Half-life for the Xbox with multiplayer support.
I'd rather vote for my favorite actor John Cusack
What is the most significant thing you have learned or appreciated anything since the time you were released from prison because of computer inactivity?
Bill Gates. Didn't he drop out of college? Look where he is now.
I also think that most of founders of fast food restaurants started out with hardly anything since most of them began during the Great Depression.
Thing like this make me wonder what colleges I should be applying to.
This gives new meaning to Dumpster Diving.